The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Monday the signings of a pair of free agents, running back Knile Davis and cornerback Coty Sensabaugh. Davis was a third-round draft choice of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013. He has played for both the Chiefs and the Green Bay Packers, and rushed for 805 yards over four seasons while…

The University of Pittsburgh has hired Heather Lyke to be the school’s athletic director. Lyke succeeds Scott Barnes, who left the school in January to take the A-D position at Oregon State. Lyke has spent the past four years as athletic director at Eastern Michigan. She has also served as associate athletic director at Ohio…

A Clarion County student was arrested before he arrived at school Monday morning after he allegedly made threats against the school on social media. The unidentified teenager, who is a juvenile, is a student at the Clarion County Career Center in Shippenville. The school was placed on lockdown from the outset of the day Monday,…

Five Penn State wrestlers won individual championships at the NCAA national tournament on Saturday night, boosting the Nittany Lions to their sixth national title in the last seven years. It was only the fourth time in which a school had produced five champions in the same year. Penn State easily won the team title over Ohio…

Sidney Crosby tallied a natural hat trick, his 10th career three-goal game, and Marc-Andre Fleury recorded his 44th shutout in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-0 home victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday afternoon. Crosby now boasts 40 goals this season – his second-highest total. Fleury (18-8-6) stopped all 21 shots he faced. Patric Hornqvist scored…

Amid mass pit stops under a caution flag with fewer than six laps remaining, Ryan Newman remained on the track and won an overtime battle at NASCAR’s Camping World 500 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Kyle Busch had seemingly been cruising to an easy victory before Joey Logano blew a tire and scraped…

Damages are estimated at up to as much as $200,000 in a fire that destroyed the headquarters building of an automobile dealership near Tylersburg early Thursday evening. Firefighters from five fire companies responded to the structure fire shortly after 6:00 PM Thursday near the intersection of Route 36 and Tylersburg Road in Farmington Township. Responders stayed…